This appears to be the same as eclipse bug 317763. The work around for that bug works for this:
1) Open System Settings 2) Select Application Appearance 3) Select GTK 4) Change the GTK2 theme to anything but oxygen-gtk It then opens the workspace. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1205452 Title: Eclipse unusable in Kubuntu Saucy (almost immediate JVM segfault) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/1205452/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs